130 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
RHODE ISLAND. 
CHAPTER 1159. 
_AN AcT to authorize the State board of agriculture to appoint a State nursery inspector, 
and to provide for the protection of trees and shrubs from injurious insects and 
diseases. 
It is enacted by the general assembly as follows: 
SECTION 1. The State board of agriculture may annually appoint some person, 
qualified by scientific training and practical experience, to be State nursery in- 
spector, who shall be responsible to the board for the performance of his duties 
as prescribed in this act. ? 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the State nursery inspector to inspect, under 
the direction of said board, all nurseries or places in the State where nursery 
stock is grown, sold, or offered fer sale, and if no dangerous insect or fungus 
pests are fund therein a certificate to that effect shall be given. If such pests 
are found therein the owner of the stock shal! take such measures to suppress 
the same as the State nursery inspector shall prescribe, and no certificate shall 
be given until the said inspector has satisfied himself by subsequent inspection 
that all such pests have been suppressed. 
Sec. 3. Owners of nurseries or of places in the State where nursery stock is ~ 
grown, sold, or offered for sale, who do not hold an unexpired certificate of in- 
spection after the first annual inspection made after the passage of this act, 
who shall sell or otherwise dispose of nursery stock in the State shall be sub- 
ject to a penalty ef not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offence. 
Sec. 4. Owners of nurseries or of places in the State where nursery stock 
is grown, sold, or offered for sale, who shall fumigate with hydrocyanic acid 
gas all stock which they sell, using at least two-tenths of a gram of potassic 
cyanide to every cubic foot of space contained in the box, house, or other place 
wherein this fumigation is performed, which place shall be gas tight, and who 
shall expose the said stock to the fumes of this gas of the strength aforesaid 
for at least forty minutes, or who shall treat the stock which they sell by some 
other niethod approved by the State nursery inspector, and who shall make 
affidavit before an officer authorized to administer oaths that all stock sold by 
them has thus been fumigated or treated, and who shall attach a copy of 
such affidavit to each package, box. or car of stock sold, shall be exempt from 
the provisions of sections two and three of this act. 
- Sec. 5. All nursery stock shipped into this State from any other State, coun- 
try, or province shall bear on-each box or package a certificate that the contents 
of said box or package have been inspected by a duly authorized inspecting - 
officer and that said contents appear to be free from all dangerous insects or 
diseases. In case nursery stock is brought within the State without such a cer- 
tificate the consignee shall return it to the consignor at the expense of the — 
latter: Provided, however, That any package or box bearing a certificate of 
fumigation which meets the requirements specified in section four of this act 
may be accepted as though bearing a proper certificate of inspection. 
Sec. 6. The State nursery inspector shall at all times have the right to enter 
any public or private grounds in the performance of any duty required by this 
act. He shall receive from the annual appropriation of the State board or 
agriculture such compensation as said board may determine. 
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 
Passed April 138, 1904. 
